I dont actually have a problem with this so we have a second division and punishes the last placed big bash team by having to play in front of smaller crowds. The move will give them more confidence when they begin to win again.

I dont actually have a problem with this so we have a second division and punishes the last placed big bash team by having to play in front of smaller crowds. The move will give them more confidence when they begin to win again.

If you dilute the Australian player pool to 10 teams, the 2 NZ ones will dominate. You'd end up with something looking roughly like this (using the Island of Origin T20 teams as a base, so excluding Test players and doing a bit of shuffling for balance reasons):

If you're trying to bring in two more teams of Australians, diluting it down even more (I mean, weigh up on one hand the number of contracted players you thought were **** in BBL|05, compared to the number of uncontracted players you thought were harsh to miss out), then those two NZ teams are gonna be pretty bloody competitive. Even more so if you slot a couple of internationals into them.

So yeah you'd have to consider NZers and Australians as domestic players across all teams, else you've got Cameron Borgas getting a game for the Cairns Crocodiles and Jeet Raval sitting on the bench for the Northern Ace Firebucks, or Tastle sitting out for the Southern VoltWizards